No CHL Awards For Dogs

Not surprisingly, the Saint John Sea Dogs came away empty handed at yesterday’s Canadian Hockey League Awards in Shawinigan.

The only player nominated was Mathieu Corbeil who was up for the Vaughn Goaltender of the Year Award. That went to the London Knights’ Michael Houser who was also nominated for CCM Player of the Year.

Only three players from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League won awards. Quebec’s Vincent Barnard was named the Home Hardware Humanitarian Player of the Year, Cape Breton’s Jonathan Brunelle was named the Subway Scholastic Player of the Year, and Quebec’s Mikhail Grigorenko was named the BMO Rookie of the Year.

Bathurst’s Zach O’Brien, who hasn’t recorded a single penalty minute in his entire career, was not named FRAM Sportsman of the Year. That award went to Brandon’s Mark Stone.

Here are the full list of award winners.

Jack Link’s Top Prospect of the Year – Nail Yakupov (Sarnia Sting)

FRAM Sportsman of the Year – Mark Stone (Brandon Wheat Kings)

Dodge Top Scorer of the Year – Brendan Shinnimin (Tri-City Americans)

Home Hardware Humanitarian Player of the Year – Vincent Barnard (Quebec Remparts)

Subway Scholastic Player of the Year – Jonathan Brunelle (Cape Breton Screaming Eagles)

Old Dutch Brian Kilrea Coach of the Year – Jim Hiller (Tri-City Americans)

BMO Rookie of the Year – Mikhail Grigorenko (Quebec Remparts)

Vaughn Goaltender of the Year – Michael Houser (London Knights)

Post Foods Canada Defenceman of the Year – Dougie Hamilton (Niagara IceDogs)

CCM Player of the Year – Brendan Shinnimin (Tri-City Americans)

Tri-City’s Brendan Shinnimin earned both the Chrysler Top Scorer and CCM Player of the Year Award.  He is the first player since Alexander Radulov in 2005-06 and Sidney Crosby in 2004-05 to win both major awards in the same season.

In other news, Shreddies is now the official cereal ofthe CHL.

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